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Mac OS X Snow Leopard v. 10.6 (Mac DVD) |  | From: Apple
Category: Software
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Seller: ELIZABETHJAMES
Rating:  125 reviews
Sales Rank: 14
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Media: DVD-ROM
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Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: MC223Z/A
UPC: 885909329861
EAN: 5027631067528
ASIN: B001AMHWP8
Release Date: August 28, 2009
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 125
 Simple upgrade from 10.4 to 10.6. July 21, 2010
Simon Downing (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire United Kingdom)
Brought an iPhone 4 on Monday, plugged it into my MacBook and it informed me it needed 10.5.something!! After a little research I found my Intel based (only Intel based ones do) MacBook at 10.4.11 (Tiger) could be upgraded 10.6 with this disk. I ordered it Tuesday, it arrive Wednesday (this morning!). I backed up iTunes and all my photos, popped in the disc and followed the on screen instructions, an hour or so later and after downloading new software updates it was all set. Didn't lose any photos/music/data (always a good idea to backup anyway) and all the old apps are there (like iPhoto etc) plus my iPhone 4 is now working! (Just made a back up of my 3GS which iTunes used in the 4)
 DESIGNERS BEWARE of helvetica font issue July 21, 2010
Cooper Hayes (Leicestershire)
I upgraded from Tiger 10.4 because I thought my iMac was feeling a bit clunky. So at £23 quid I thought what harm can it do to catch up with the times, right? The OS installed brilliantly as usual, however I immediately realised my biggest problem the minute I tried to run Indesign. My old version of suitcase no longer worked, and all my fonts were unavailable. I therefore had to immediately upgrade to suitcase Fusion 2 (seems great by the way) at an additional $65. Got all fonts running fine except for the designer's bread and butter - Helvetica Neue. The Snow Leopard system has it's own 'undeletable' protected version of this installed which prevents any other postcript version of Neue being allowed to run. As a result, I've had to replace all fonts in a live job to the Mac .ttc version which messed up some baseline alignments and text flow requiring unnecessary time and attention. Any other job I go back to will need the same treatment. There are work-arounds posted on the web to allow you to throw the system version away, but having tried this, my whole system went caput and I could no longer launch a programme. Not sure what I did wrong! Apple shouldn't mess with this - it's foremost a designer's tool and the choice of fonts is our prerogative. Anyway I put all the original system fonts back in their place and after a few shut downs and restarts it sorted itself out. Other than that, I have to say I'm not aware of any major improvements in the way it all runs. I don't like that I can no longer see a little arrow above the icons in the dock to show which programme is running, nor the new look mail interface, and emails seem to take longer to send. But perhaps I'm grumbling because my introduction to Snow Leopard was so stressful! If it ain't broke...
good, but some network probs July 20, 2010
reuben (Jersey (Channel islands))
first of all, this is much improved from leopard, all thongs tweaked a bit to make them better. i have found a few niggles though. when my macbook is hooked up to a monitor and is connecting to wi-fi, the mouse becomes jumpy. you turn airport off, and its fine again, so you have to use and ethernet cable. the strange thing is, its only jumps with my devolo wireless extender and not with my belkin 54g. great overall, as if you have tiger you can upgrade straight to snow leopard and dont have to buy leopard first for £70
Excellent - Cheap way to upgrade from Tiger July 6, 2010
NAB
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently purchased a 4 year old Macbook which came with the Tiger CDs. Tiger installed and worked OK. I first tried to get a free upgrade from Apple, but the guy I spoke to on the phone was pointing me towards Amazon as a cheaper way to get an upgrade rather than via Apple.
When you look on the Apple Website, they recommend that you purchase the full box set at £132 to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard, (Rather expensive and a rip off).
Anyway, after reading the reviews other reviews were saying it was possible to upgrade by just purchasing the OS.
A friend at work also recently purchased a second hand Macbook, and last week he did the same, purchased the upgrade disks from Amazon and carried out a full install of Snow Leopard with a full format.
I however just installed the disk and followed the instructions, (double click on the large 'X') to install OS X. It took a good hour to install, my Macbook only has 1GB RAM. After install, all of the current programs e.g. Photo Booth, Garage Band, iMovie etc were still installed along with the Vodafone software. The only problem I had was with the Vodafone software that stopped Airport from working. I uninstalled the Vodafone software and after a re-boot I reconfiguring the Macbook to my wireless network so I was able to download the 1GB of extra updates that needed to be installed.
Anyway, Snow Leopard on a 4 year old Macbook with 1GB of RAM runs fine. I'll however upgrade to 2GB RAM soon, to give the Macbook that extra bit of grunt. Also looking forward to trying out Bootcamp and Windows XP or 7 on it.
So a good way to upgrade without spending loads of money. Well worth the £23 for the Upgrade.
Worth buying June 26, 2010
Jane Smith (Germany)
I had a lot of problems before upgrading to snow leopard. A lot of lagging and errors. As soon as i upgrade, every problem got solved. It is much stable now and faster.
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